# Mr. Warburton — The Black Moth character guide

> Mr. Warburton in The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Warburton

**First appearance:** 0001-i-at-the-chequers-inn-fallowfield

## Snapshot

A lawyer who knows too much and says too little, doggedly pursuing his master's return while choking on the word 'amends.'

## Who they are

Mr. Warburton manages the tangled legal affairs of the Carstares family with a mixture of professional precision and barely suppressed anguish. He alone has pieced together the truth of his master's innocence, and the knowledge sits heavily on him as he shuttles between a fugitive earl and a guilt-ridden brother. His scenes crackle with the tension between what he can prove and what he dares to say aloud.

## Relationships

### [Lady Lavinia Carstares](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/lady_lavinia_carstares)

_professional_

Mr. Warburton is a servant or steward in Lady Lavinia's household, managing her affairs.

### [Lady Lavinia Carstares](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/lady_lavinia_carstares)

_professional_

Mr. Warburton is a servant or steward in Lady Lavinia's household, managing her affairs.

### [Lady Lavinia Carstares](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/characters/lady_lavinia_carstares)

_professional_

Mr. Warburton is a servant or steward in Lady Lavinia's household, managing her affairs.

## In the story

### [I: At the Chequers Inn, Fallowfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/chapters/i-at-the-chequers-inn-fallowfield)

A nervous lawyer who comes to the Chequers Inn to meet Sir Anthony Ferndale, actually Lord John Carstares. He is concerned about Jack's welfare and tries to persuade him to return home.

### [III: Introducing the Hon. Richard Carstares](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/chapters/iii-introducing-the-hon-richard-carstares)

The lawyer who receives Richard's confession and delivers a message from the Earl of Wyncham.

### [IV: Introducing the Lady Lavinia Carstares](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/chapters/iv-introducing-the-lady-lavinia-carstares)

Reported to Richard that Jack refuses the earldom and seems unchanged.

### [Richard Plays the Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_moth_se/chapters/xxiv-richard-plays-the-man)

Reports to Richard that Jack Carstares has not been seen for months and may have gone abroad.

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